HSE insist suicide prevention is available

HEALTH officials have hit back at claims by a coroner and a child protection group that the HSE was failing the most vulnerable and needy.

The Health Service Executive South insisted yesterday it has developed a range of services for suicide prevention and for those who have been affected by suicide or are at risk of self-harm.

A coroner in Wexford rounded on the service last week, saying no lessons were learned since the suicide of mother-of-three Sharon Grace, who drowned her daughters and then herself in April 2005.